An age-old obsession retirement possession weekend confession
\nHurry home to tell with a beach souvenir shell ocean smell
\nDinner at Tender Junction chicken thighs pork butt fish fries
\nDyeing my hair white for Senior Discount lying to you
\nBorn with a silver spoon full June moon she hums summer tunes
\nA flock of seagulls scatter across the beach gray sky morning
\nTropical sunset as the sea leaks into dusk sublime shade
\n90F humidity nice glasses filled with ice sake made from rice
\nHow do I know the truth rough and smooth superfine uncouth
\nButterfly breast tattoo morphs into a peacock getting fatter
\nCouch potato problems my dog sleeps on top so far gone\u00a0
\nSister wants to dance waltz or boogie twister midnight mister
\nOutbreak of monkey pox global emergency a virus unlocks
\nFirst time Grandma peeks at baby\u2019s cheeks red for weeks.<\/p>\n
Viva Vortex Visible Voracity<\/strong> Joey ‘Pepe Batbon’ Connolly (Special to the Saipan Tribune)<\/strong> An age-old obsession retirement possession weekend confession Hurry home to tell with a beach souvenir…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":355846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,23672,23673,13843],"class_list":["post-373687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-cnmi","tag-lvnv","tag-nola","tag-pepe-batbon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nA sonnet dedicated to the James Webb Space\u00a0Telescope, now operating a million miles out in space.
\n\u00a0
\nA tanka or a waka poem for all of mankind\u00a0
\nit came out a priori now what else can I do
\nforego all the beer, Irish whiskey and red wine
\nand dedicate this humble doggerel to you
\n\u00a0
\nHere\u2019s to all the galaxies coiled like a snake
\nmeasured in pi its hard to count every zero
\ntrillions of galaxies mix in our cosmic cake
\ncosmic mandalas with black holes on the menu
\n\u00a0
\nSpatial spaghetti with shredded stars in situ
\ndark energy prevails dark matter in unison
\naddressing each and every ion opening uniformly
\nsome expectations may bring future frustrations
\n\u00a0
\nAnswers about every inch of all of outer space
\nanti-science antagonists may have to acquiesce.<\/p>\n
\nJoey aka Pepe Batbon is a retired educator who taught in the CNMI, NOLA, and LVNV. He is a sonnet practitioner who enjoys stargazing.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"